[Opensim-dev] SimulatorExtraFeatures Service

[Nicky Perian]

imo, I think this should be delivered with grid info. This provides a
cleaner way to handle the URL on the viewer end.



On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <
jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi BlueWall,
>
> I see you added this service to master today which appears to allow
> simulators to fetch 'extra' information about OpenSimulator features at
> runtime [1].  I have a number of questions/points.
>
> 1.  Can't this be part of GridInfo?  Why do we need another service for
> this?
>
> 2.  Why is the Robust side config named [SimulatorExtraFeatures]?  This
> makes it a pain to get a uniform config story for standalone as well as
> grid.  Can't it also be [SimulatorFeatures] so that standalone doesn't need
> another seemingly identical section if it needs to get this config?
>
> 3.  What is the purpose of the region_override config value?  If regions
> did want different values for extra features then it would be trivial for
> them to workaround this.  If these really do need to be unique to the grid,
> then I think they should really be fetched by the viewer directly from the
> service and not via the SimulatorFeatures capability, as many of these are
> not really simulator features but grid-wide.
>
> 4.  I know Json RPC was already used for profiles, but it's getting to be
> a real pain when services keep using different access methods (REST, HTTP
> query parameters, RPC, etc.).  Can't we use HTTP query for this like many
> of the existing services? [2]
>
> [1] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/SimulatorFeatures_Extras
> [2] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Services
>
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